Ellen Contini-Morava

Ellen Contini-Morava is an anthropological linguist, interested in the meanings of linguistic forms, discourse analysis, functional linguistics and classification; in particular, in the relationship between lexicon and grammar. She specializes in Bantu languages in general, and Swahili in particular.

Education and career

Contini-Morava received her PhD from Columbia University in 1983 under William Diver and Erica Garcia. Contini-Morava is a professor emerita at the University of Virginia.

Books

Contini-Morava is the author of the book Discourse Pragmatics and Semantic Categorization: The Case of Negation and Tense-Aspect with Special Reference to Swahili.
Her edited volumes include Between Grammar and Lexicon and Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis.